21.9 Additional Reading

Many radio and television stations now support streaming archives of their programming. A favorite of ours is the National Public Radio Archive that can be accessed at www.npr.org. The Web page of Internet Talk Radio is http://town.hall.org/radio. We often use the Geek of the Week programs to test our projects. Historical streaming media are freely available in many areas. For example, the Oyez Project of Northwestern University maintains the US Supreme Court Multimedia Database at http://oyez.nwu.edu. The site archives original recordings of famous cases as well oral arguments and oral opinions in streaming audio format.

Understanding networked multimedia applications and technology by Fluckiger [37] is dated but gives a good overview of terminology and applicable standards. The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming by Austerberry and Starks [8] and Streaming Media Bible by Mack [75] are newer guides to actually using streaming media with current products. For a technical guide to multicast and multicast applications, see Multicast Communication: Protocols, Programming, and Applications by Wittmann and Zitterbart [131].

Many of the current streaming media tools use RTSP (Realtime Streaming Protocol) built over RTP (Realtime Transport Protocol). You can find a good overview of RTP and its enhancements in the article "Timer reconsideration for enhanced RTP scalability," by Rosenberg and Schulzrinne [100]. The Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (mmusic) Working Group [84] of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) [55] is in charge of maintaining and revising the RTSP and RTP specifications. This working group also oversees the development of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for supporting voice over IP (VOIP) applications.